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BMIC
At a recent soccer game leading up to the Olympics, the U.S. under-23 men's soccer team played to 2-0 win over Canada in Zapopan Mexico. The 1,500 Mexican spectators reportedly booed "The Star-Spangled Banner", booed U.S. goals, and then chanted "Osama!, Osama! Osama!" as our players left the field.

Now I can see them, after we knocked them out of qualifying for the last World Cup, perhaps going so far as to do the first two, simply being sore losers. But chanting for the terrorist whose lackeys murdered thousands of innocent Americans on 9/11? IMO, that's beyond the pale!

I know sports rivalries can get out of hand so, had it been only one or a small group of drunken spectators doing this, I could see it. But this is almost beyond belief!

Your reaction?
Mcgee
And to think we are sending jobs down to those BEAN EATERS,
Boycott any and everything they make. I know i will.
Romulus
It's pathetic!! I hope knock them out of the world cup running again.
Observer
What if the game had been in Texas and American fans would have chanted anti-Mexican slogans? There would have been an international outrage and the president would have been required to publically apologize and then send a couple more billion dollars to this country that is barely above Third World status.
WVU-Mountaineers
No matter what they say Mexico IS a third-world country.
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